"When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready."
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"Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear."
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"[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor."
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"God himself favors the brave."
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"Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors."
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"I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities."
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"The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist.""
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"I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals."
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"No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it."
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"Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters."
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"Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor."
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"to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized."
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"To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition"
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"Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom."
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"I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it."
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"Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift."
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"Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . ."
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"I favor capital punishment. It saves lives."
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